Pangolins young and old are slaughtered for their meat, scales and claws to be used as food and traditional medicines, largely in China. By the hundreds of thousands, they are the victims of the rampant global illegal wildlife trade.

Boosting law enforcement skills of stakeholders is critical to detecting, managing and adjudicating over wildlife cases

In spite of evidence showing wildlife crime is linked to other forms of serious offenses, most countries apply wildlife policies and legislation that fail to treat wildlife poaching and trafficking as a serious offence. As a result of the weak laws, wildlife crime offenders are never profiled despite their despicable acts of illegal killing and trafficking of wildlife.